Duplicate Selected Item

emorales

Hi Everyone. I duplicate an item (bib info only no pdfs) in Collection-A and drag into collection-B. That works. Then I want to delete the duplicated item in collection-A by doing "Remove selected item". This works too but it also deletes the item in collection-B. How do I do it correctly?

adamsmith

If I understand correctly, just hitting delete would work.
But note that just dragging and item from Collection A to Collection B will place it in both collections - collections are _not_ like folders. The _same_ item can be in multiple collections (think itunes playlists or gmail collections rather than OS folders).

dstillman

Then I want to delete the duplicated item in collection-A by doing "Remove selected item". This works too but it also deletes the item in collection-B.

No it doesn't. "Remove Selected Item", like pressing Delete/Backspace, only removes the item from the current collection. Only "Delete Selected Item from Library" would remove it from other collections and your library and move it to the trash.

Gracile

like pressing Delete/Backspace, only removes the item from the current collection.

That would be great to have a keyboard shortcut to delete item from library. On Windows, something like Shift+Del maybe.

dstillman

Adding Control (or Command on a Mac) does exactly that.

Gracile

Thanks Dan!